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The
Gudermannian function
relates the
circular
and
hyperbolic
trigonometric functions without resorting to
complex numbers
. It is defined by
The following identities follow:
The inverse,
is the core of the
Mercator projection
.
The following identities also hold:
Ref: CRC
Handbook of Mathematical Sciences
5th ed. pp323–5